David Albertson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 2007 after studies at Stanford, Oxford, Chicago, and Cologne. He is the author of "Cusanus Today: Thinking with Nicholas of Cusa between Philosophy and Theology" (The Catholic University of America Press, 2024); "Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres" (Oxford University Press, 2014); "Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology" (Fordham University Press, 2009); and over 30 articles on medieval philosophy and mysticism. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, The Huntington Library, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is the founding Executive Director of the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought and writes for Commonweal and American Magazine. His current projects are a monograph on the role of geometry in the emergence of Christian mysticism and a translation of controversial monastic letters from medieval Germany.
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–presentAssociate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
